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Jul 26, 2018LauraSteinert rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
I've been watching Perry Mason reruns for 50 years and Law and Order for at least four versions and even Bull, so this was something really new to me. Marshall is not glamorized at all. He is shown as a pompous jerk who neglects his wife. He is rude and condescending throughout the movie--but I suspect the real Marshall was probably like that. How you produce a whole movie about that era and not use the N word in every scene is beyond me, but they managed to show the same disrespect, nonetheless. Not an edge of your seat thriller, but the relationship between Marshall and Friedman creates good tension, the prosecutor manages to play his role as evil, entitled rich kid without falling into melodrama, and the Judge cuts the line between good-old-boy helping a pal's son win a case and following the law so close that I expected blood to start seeping from his skin.